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Re: SteppIR Flows

 

Thanks for providing direction on this......initially I think I will use the usb ports.....then after I get that running I will look at adding the steppir flows.
It seems to me that it doesn't make sense to let the Optimizer (in autotrack) to constantly ajjust the 2 SteppIR antennas when they may not be the antenna selected in the AG.
So if I go through Node Red I can track only when I have selected the SteppIr antenna in the AG....
Correct?
Tim
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Re: SteppIR Flows

 

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You can have a link out from when the button for SteppIR port is active on AG flow to the SteppIR flow and use the payload to control tracking or no-tracking mode of the SteppIR controller.

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Custom stuff but definitely can be done.

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73

Dave wo2x

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tim Vandagriff via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 10:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [nodered-hamradio] SteppIR Flows

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I am currently using as modified ( I added some things) version of Wo2x flows to control my station. I am modifying my antenna system which will have a StepIR Big IR Vertical and a Urban Beam.

I expect to have the Vertical up in a week.

Overall I will have 3 antennas with overlapping frequency coverage.

I have a 8600, TGXL, PGXL, and a 8x2 AG.

My understanding is the StepIR tracks frequency from the 8600 which means they track regardless of what Antenna I selected in the AG.

Is that correct?

If that is the case I want to add the SteppIR flows so that they only track the frequency when selected by the AG.

Thanks,

Tim

wa5yom

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Re: Smartlink server refresh rate

 

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I used DuckDuckGo, (google bad, lol), results:

This simple node returns the internal or public IP address of the Node-red host. install.

I tried this to confirm:


inject anything triggers a msg.payload that includes "publicIPv4"? public IPv4 ip address. So all you need to do is test with a switch or a function for the two expected IP addresses, if ip address WAN1 do this, else if ip address WAN2 do this. Have node-red toggle a relay connected to the remote power on input on your 6400, for that refer to


On 2025-04-30 11:52 a.m., Gary, KE8O via groups.io wrote:
They recently added a secondary WAN connection at the Red Cross where our Club has its remote flex 6400. ?Our equipment is only accessible when it is on the primary WAN connection since the secondary is using a Verizon wireless solution.
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What I am observing is that when it switches back to the primary smart link is not automatically detecting the failback. However, the raspberry pi that is running NodeRed detects the change much faster. ?So when the flex shows available in the radio selection window, but we are unable to connect because it is showing the secondary IP address. If I can login to NodeRed and power cycle the radio. When the radio comes back online, it will show the primary IP address and we are able to connect to the radio.?
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Now I'll get into the NodeRed question.?
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1) I am not sure how frequent the WAN connection switches from the primary to the secondary connection. Can something be setup to query and log the WAN connections IP in NodeRed??
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2) When NodeRed detects that the WAN address has failed back from the secondary WAN address to the primary WAN can it reboot the radio??
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73, VE3CKO
Mike Kovacich
Re: SteppIR Flows

 

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 08:29 AM, Tim Vandagriff wrote:
My understanding is the StepIR tracks frequency from the 8600 which means they track regardless of what Antenna I selected in the AG.
Is that correct?
If that is the case I want to add the SteppIR flows so that they only track the frequency when selected by the AG.
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Tim;
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The StepIR for both antennas can be configured to track the flex frequency. ?There are two ways to do this. ?First is to set up CAT control from the Flex Radio, one USB port to each SDA controller (total of two USB ports from the file radio usbs). ?This uses the upper DB9 Connector on the SDA. Then set up the SDAs for transceiver control. ? On the SDA, you can turn auto control on/off with the "auto track" button. ?Dave, WO2X uses this method ? More on this later.
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The second way for frequency control to originate from the Node-Red flow, which ?sends frequency changes to the SDA controller, the bottom DB9 connector. ? I use this method.
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Now for Node Red.....the node-red flows posted on this site all provide for API operation of the auto track, on/off. ?And, the Antenna Genius Flows on this site all have the selected antenna name available.
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So, to gain the function you request, have Node-Red look for the antenna name from the AG, and turn on/off the appropriate SDA's "auto track".
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Alan. WA9WUD
Smartlink server refresh rate

 

They recently added a secondary WAN connection at the Red Cross where our Club has its remote flex 6400. ?Our equipment is only accessible when it is on the primary WAN connection since the secondary is using a Verizon wireless solution.
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What I am observing is that when it switches back to the primary smart link is not automatically detecting the failback. However, the raspberry pi that is running NodeRed detects the change much faster. ?So when the flex shows available in the radio selection window, but we are unable to connect because it is showing the secondary IP address. If I can login to NodeRed and power cycle the radio. When the radio comes back online, it will show the primary IP address and we are able to connect to the radio.?
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Now I'll get into the NodeRed question.?
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1) I am not sure how frequent the WAN connection switches from the primary to the secondary connection. Can something be setup to query and log the WAN connections IP in NodeRed??
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2) When NodeRed detects that the WAN address has failed back from the secondary WAN address to the primary WAN can it reboot the radio??
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Re: 4O3A_Azimuth_Magnetic_Sensor.json

 

I must be doing something wrong.? I can't find your project in Files.
SteppIR Flows

 

I am currently using as modified ( I added some things) version of Wo2x flows to control my station. I am modifying my antenna system which will have a StepIR Big IR Vertical and a Urban Beam.
I expect to have the Vertical up in a week.
Overall I will have 3 antennas with overlapping frequency coverage.
I have a 8600, TGXL, PGXL, and a 8x2 AG.
My understanding is the StepIR tracks frequency from the 8600 which means they track regardless of what Antenna I selected in the AG.
Is that correct?
If that is the case I want to add the SteppIR flows so that they only track the frequency when selected by the AG.
Thanks,
Tim
wa5yom
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Re: Challenges while installing the LP700 Flow in Nodered 4.0 with node.js version 20.xx and npm version 10.8.2 and workarounds

 

Thanks for sharing.
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The "robertsLando/node-red-contrib-usbhid" node can be difficult to get up and running. I had to recompile it on my Mac OS hosted Node-RED server.
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73,
Scott
AK5SD
Re: Lightning node red

 

Laci

Ok. Sao what is the issue. you need to connect some relay board to your node-red server. Enter you longitude and latitude in the function and if the result of the caclulation is less than some number send a message [payload to the relay to turn off the amp. later turn it back on.


Marty
On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 07:39:39 AM EDT, Laci via groups.io <ha8rd.laci@...> wrote:


I am using the W8BE node red lightning flow , which I would like to use to switch a relay that disconnects the amplifier.
Re: Lightning node red

 

I am using the W8BE node red lightning flow , which I would like to use to switch a relay that disconnects the amplifier.
Re: Lightning node red

 

There is a node-red flow that polls the litigators site and tell you how far away a lightning strike is detected. There are a couple of different flows in the file section. No need for any sensor hardware.

Marty




On Monday, April 28, 2025, 8:14 PM, Puneit Singh via groups.io <vu2tum@...> wrote:

Hello Laci
AMS AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor can detect lightning near your QTH. Once detected, nodered can be used to control a coaxial relay or if using a mechanical relay, a servo can be used to control that.
You can use ESP32. If you are using HomeAssistant, then setting up sensor is quite easy via Esphome.
73
Puneit / VU2TUM
Re: Lightning node red

 

Hello Laci
AMS AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor can detect lightning near your QTH. Once detected, nodered can be used to control a coaxial relay or if using a mechanical relay, a servo can be used to control that.
You can use ESP32. If you are using HomeAssistant, then setting up sensor is quite easy via Esphome.
73
Puneit / VU2TUM
Re: Lightning node red

 

Yes?

Marty




On Monday, April 28, 2025, 1:59 PM, Laci via groups.io <ha8rd.laci@...> wrote:

Hi guys , can the Lightning node red application control a switch ? If I am not near a computer and lightning activity is closer than for example. 5km then turn off the radio and the amplifier.
73 DE Laci HA8RD
Lightning node red

 

Hi guys , can the Lightning node red application control a switch ? If I am not near a computer and lightning activity is closer than for example. 5km then turn off the radio and the amplifier.
73 DE Laci HA8RD
Challenges while installing the LP700 Flow in Nodered 4.0 with node.js version 20.xx and npm version 10.8.2 and workarounds

 
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Hello All,?
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I am sharing this information for the LP700 and LP500 users in this group. Recently I was helping my friend in VU to upgrade the NodeRed Setup to the latest NodeRed version. We have exported all the flows ( FlexRadio, SPE amp, LP700Power meter etc.) We setup a new PI4 with the Nodered 4.0 and imported the flows one after another, we could manage the flows except the LP700 .? Author of the LP700 flow is KD4Z , In this flow the HID node from this repo -robertslando/node-red-contrib-usbhid - is used to avoid any specific drivers.?
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I tried to follow the steps mentioned in the flow , and the npm install command (--sudo npm install robertsLando/node-red-contrib-usbhid --?) failed in the Node Red Version 4.0 .?
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Since it is failing in the latest version, I found another repo with similar implementation and that solved the problem of finding the right hid node that works with the LP700.? Here is the new repo of hid node --somebuddy87/node-red-contrib-usbhid? ?-- that works with the LP700.?
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Next challenge was to find the stoptimer3 node, I could find the stoptimer3 implementation in this repo -- zybron/node-red-contrib-stoptimer3--- . When I tried the npm install in a fresh installation of NodeRed 4? ( without any other flows) I could see the stoptimer3 node got installed properly and the LP700 flow got imported without any problems . When i repeated the same in my friend's system , I could not find stoptimer3 even after multiple npm install and reboot attempts. I am not sure why , but I noticed one major difference between these systems. Second PI had the stoptimer and stoptimer2 nodes present and importing the stoptimer3 is not bringing the node . So I had to change the flow to use the stoptimer2 instead of stoptimer3 in my friend's NodeRed system. As a result of this changes I could see the LP700 flow started working and the dashboard is fully functional.?
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To cut short the story, I have uploaded a modified version of the LP700 flow under the WattMeters folder.? The Prerequisites in the flow is updated with the changes.
Hope this will help the LP700 uses when migrating to NodeRed 4.0.
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73,?
LB9KJ/VU3ESV
Vinod Nair
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions

 

Patrick,
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There are two APIs... See below:
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api:?object
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The FRStackWebApi is for a linux or OSX platform.? ? The 2nd one (FRStack) is the Windows API that interfaces to FRStack V3.? ?If you are running FRStack on? your PC you can point Node-RED to run on the FRStack API.? ?There are some differences that require modifying the payload in order for the W3II flow to work with the FRStack API.? ? ?
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If you are running Node-RED on the same device then the 127.0.0.1:5025 ip address correct.? If you run it on another host you would need to enter that host ip there.? ? I don't think the FRStackWebApi will work with the StreamDeck api commands.? ?One last item is to not forget the websocket set up for FRStackWebApi.? If you are running Node-RED and FRStackWebApi on the same device then you would use ws://127.0.0.1:5025/ws/meters for the web socket address.? ?If you plan to run the FRStack api in order to use your Stream Deck then I would point Node-RED to the FRStack api.? ?The reason is to keep the api load on the radio as lite as possible.? ?
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? Attached is the flow for the switch and StripFRStackQuote change node to correct the payload from the FRStack api? for use in the flow.? ?I have them inserted in 3 locations.? ?The switch node routes the payload depending on which api you run.? ?
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Hope this helps
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Regards
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flows - 2025-04-27T201832.244.json
flows - 2025-04-27T201832.244.json

Re: FR Stack on Pi questions

 

Here is the final url configuration for SD to FRStack on a Pi for anyone following along. The URL is your Pi's IP address then :5025
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Re: FR Stack on Pi questions

 

All issues 100% rectified. I was missing a / on the SD buttons I have that choose specific slices. Apparently it didn't matter with the /api/ on the windows URL, but it was a show stopper on the Pi. I now no way more than anticipated on the differences in running FRStack on Pi vs Windows!
Re: FR Stack on Pi questions

 

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Also Windows version of REST command use the /qpi/ and Pi version does not.?

It is in the help section on FRStack site.?

73
Dave wo2x
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On Apr 27, 2025, at 2:27?PM, Patrick Lenn via groups.io <nwmtech@...> wrote:

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Progress!!! Changing URL1 to my pi address and :5025 seems to make about 90% of the SD functional. Oddly enough the only thing I'm noticing that isn't being recognized is the changing the active slice which is a little odd.?
Re: FR Stack on Pi questions

 

Progress!!! Changing URL1 to my pi address and :5025 seems to make about 90% of the SD functional. Oddly enough the only thing I'm noticing that isn't being recognized is the changing the active slice which is a little odd.?
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